http://churchdoorandback.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/we-never-had-it-so-good.html
We also had Arthur Fields who graced O'Connell Street and particularly "Carlisle Bridge" from 1930 to 1985 taking and selling Polaroid photos of the passers-by. The photos were developed by in a nearby studio by his wife and it is estimated that he took 182,000 over the course of his photographic career.
These photos have now become a cultural and historical treasure chest recording as they did Dublin life in its' simplest form over a period of 50 years.
An online archive is now being established of the photographs taken by Fields, whose real name was Abraham Feldman and who was born into a Ukrainian Jewish family in 1901 - the family fled antisemitism in Kiev and moved to Dublin in the early 1900s.
The online archive of Fields's work can be seen at
http://www.manonbridge.ie/
and while the site is not easy to navigate or refresh, it is an interesting browse if you wnat to while away a half hour or so.
Well done Arthur and to think we always thought you were a useless old dirty codger ripping off the public - your time has well and truly come.
